Giovanni Blasio, 17th century, Still life with lobster

Giovanni Blasio (active in Lombardy in the second half of the 17th century) "Still life with lobster" oil on canvas signed lower left width cm. 165 height cm. 66 This Still Life represents the typical style of the painter, whose ancestry from Boselli had been indicated by Ferdinando Arisi. According to Sestieri, Blasio was "A personality certainly of note and who must have played a not secondary role, as a probable trait d'union between the Lombard world of the centres of Milan and Bergamo and the Emilian one focused on Piacenza and Parma. Typical of Blasio "the presence of a crustacean among the fruit that often returns in his compositions." [Sestrieri 1.7.07; Ferdinando Arisi, Still life between Milan and Parma in the Baroque era. Felice Boselli, rectifications and additions, Piacenza, 1995, p. 87, nn. 44-45] - Each painting in our Gallery is sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by an Expert of the Court and the CCIAA of Genoa.